Maram al-Masri is from Lattakia in Syria, now settled in Paris. She studied English Literature at Damscus University before starting publishing her poetry in Arab magazines in the 1970s. Thus far her work has been translated into eight languages. Her poetry collections include Red Cherry on the White Floor and I look at you. Most recently, in English, she has published Barefoot Souls (Arc 2015) also translated by Theo Dorgan. Theo Dorgan was born in Cork and has published five books of poetry. His most recent collections are Greek (Dedalus 2012) and Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus 2014). He has published two prose accounts of sailing journeys, Sailing for Home (Penguin) and Time on the Ocean (New Island 2013). He published Making Way, a novel, in 2013. He has translated a previous collection of Maram al-Masri's, Barefoot Souls (Arc 2015).

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The Abduction

Detailing the lives of Syrian women living in Paris, these poems, capturing the unheard voices of women whose lives are suppressed in unimaginable ways, allow us to explore moments never mentioned in the news reports. Potent and never failing to capture the essence of the feminine experience with a remarkable amount of insight.

Barefoot Souls

History & Criticism

Arc Publications

Winner of an Albertine and FACE Foundation grant.&nbsp; The Abduction details the terror and sorrow surrounding the abduction of Maram Al-Masri's only child by her then husband who fled to Syria, where due to the patriarchal nature of society and the social/political problems she was unable to fight for custody.The Abduction refers to an autobiographical event in Maram Al-Masri's life. When, as a young Arab woman living in France, she decides to separate from her husband with whom she has a child, the father kidnaps the baby and returns to Syria. Al-Masri won't see her son for thirteen years. This is the story of a woman denied the basic right to raise her child.&nbsp; These are haunting, spellbinding poems of love, despair, and hope, a delicate, profound and powerful book on intimacy, a mother's rights, war, exile, and freedom. Maram Al-Masri embodies the voice of all parents, who one day, for whatever the reason, have been forcibly separated from their loved ones. She writes about the status of women, seeking to reconcile her role as a mother with her writing work. The terrible war that has devastated her native country since 2011 has painfully affected her.&nbsp; Also included in The Abduction is The Bread of Letters, comprised of two poems addressing the act of writing: "Isn't the act of writing / an outrageous act in itself? Writing / is getting to know / one's innermost thoughts. / Yes, I am scandalous / because I show my truth and my nakedness of woman. / Yes I am scandalous / because I scream my pain and my hope, / my desire, my hunger and my thirst." For Al-Masri, writing is a vital and deeply human need: "When I write what I feel, I'm afraid of nothing. Poetry is my freedom and touches me where it lands most deeply. It offers me life vibration, the flush of a river, where feet and dreams meet." The Guardian described her as "a love poet whose verse spares no truth of love's joys and mercilessness."

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White Pine Press

Granada. 18 cm. 230 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Inverso', numero coleccion(1.). Al-Mi?ri, Maram 1962-. Traducción de Rafael Ortega. Texto en sirio y en español. Lancelot (Serie) (Granada). 1. Inverso .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 8484446212

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Editorial Comares

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is “Ancient Enmity”. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22–26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme “Ancient Enmity.” Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

Barefoot Souls (International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong Series)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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